Weird But True

Weird but true

These kids make Dennis the Menace look like an angel.

Six- and 7-year-old brothers in Oktaha, Okla., set off a police search when they went missing while visiting a junkyard with their grandma.

At the end of a three-hour hunt, they were found a mile away in an empty house.

They had ransacked it, eaten a bunch of food and painted their faces.

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Who says paradise by the dashboard light is only for the young?

A 72-year-old woman and her 62-year-old boyfriend were busted for having sex in a car parked behind a BBQ joint in Sonora, Calif.

The midday tryst shocked diners and cops, who gave the aging passionate pair a summons.

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The elderly were also getting feisty in Maine — where two biddies at a bingo tournament got into a fistfight when one interrupted the game to hawk Avon beauty products.

The wrinkly wrestling match grew so heated that police were called.

The victim declined to press charges, presumably because the first rule of senior bingo is: “No snitching.”

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If you drive through Missouri City, Texas, please be extra careful.

That’s because the town has decided to charge a “crash tax” to motorists involved in accidents. The bill can run as high as $2,000 per wreck.

The “tax” is meant to pay for emergency responders, and only those drivers deemed responsible for collisions will be charged.

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A Chinese businessman is so disgusted by how polluted the river is in his hometown that he has offered an environmental official $32,000 to swim in it.

Jin Zengmin said Sina Weibo must swim in the river for 20 minutes to collect.

That will be tough, since the river is so clogged with floating debris that it hardly flows and little water can be seen on the surface.